Paul Viardot was a French violinist and musicologist; born at Courtavenel, son of the distinguished singer Mme. Viardot-Garcia. Studied under Léonard and has appeared with great success in Paris and London. Compositions include two sonatas, several concert solos and smaller violin works as well as important contributions to the literature of music.

The second husband of Paul's aunt, Maria Malibran

Maria Malibran

The mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran , was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28...

, was the great Belgian violinist Charles de Bériot

Charles de Bériot

Charles Auguste de Bériot was a Belgian violinist and composer.-Biography:Born in Leuven, where there is now a street named in his honour, he moved to France in 1810, where he studied violin with Jean-François Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti...

, who remained close to the Viardots and took an interest in the boy, though Paul actually studied with his successor at the Brussels Conservatoire Hubert Léonard

Hubert Léonard

Hubert Léonard was a famous Belgian violinist, born at Bellaire, Liège. His earliest preparatory training was given by Rouma, after which he entered the Paris Conservatory in 1836, where he studied for three years under Habeneck. In 1844 he started his extended tours which established his...

 (also related by marriage to the Garcia clan). Though Carl Flesch

Carl Flesch

Carl Flesch was a violinist and teacher.Carl Flesch was born in Moson in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of age. At 10, he was taken to Vienna, and began to study with Jakob Grün. At 17, he left for Paris, and joined the Paris Conservatoire...

 dismisses Paul Viardot as a salon player, he was clearly more than that, as he toured widely. Fauré dedicated his A major sonata of 1875/6 to him. Viardot's recordings are rare, partly because they were poorly engineered; but they suggest an example of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing in its rather tight phase, before the loosening and relaxing influence of Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

.

Généalogie

Manuel Garcia

Manuel Garcia

Manuel Garcia may refer to:*Manuel García , singer & voice pedagogue; son of Manuel García *Manuel García , Spanish singer and composer, father of Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García...

 (Manuel del POPOLO RODRIGUEZ dit GARCIA) (1775–1832)
Chanteur - Compositeur - Chef d'orchestre
x Maria Joachina SITCHES dit BRIONES (1780–1864)
│
│
├──> Manuel Garcia Junior (1805–1906)
│ Chanteur - Compositeur - Professeur de chant
│ x Cécile Maria "Eugénie" MAYER (1814–1880)
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│
│
│
├──> Maria Malibran

Maria Malibran

The mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran , was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28...

 (Maria Félicita GARCIA dite) (1808–1836)
│ x 1 Eugène MALIBRAN (1765- )
│ x 2 Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870)
│ │ Compositeur - Violoniste
│ │
│ ├──> Charles Wilfrid de Bériot
│ Pianiste - Compositeur
│ Professeur à l'école Niedermeyer
│
├──> Pauline Viardot ( Pauline Michèle Ferdinande GARCIA dite) (1821–1910)
Cantatrice
x Louis Viardot (1800–1883)
│
├──> Louise Héritte-Viardot

Louise Héritte-Viardot

Louise Héritte-Viardot was a French singer, pianist and composer. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot....

 (1843–1918)
│ Compositrice - Pianiste - Cantatrice
│ x Ernest HERITTE
│
│
├──> Paul Viardot (1857- ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Viardot
│ Violoniste - Musicologue
│
├──> Marianne VIARDOT (1859- )
│ Peintre
│ se fiance avec Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...

│ x Victor Alphonse Duvernoy
│ Pianiste - Compositeur
│
├──> Claudie VIARDOT ( - )
x Georges Chamerot
Éditeur
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